NATIONAL EFFICIENCY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9127, 24 October 1917, Page 5

NATIONAL EFFICIENCY

ASHBURTON ADVISORY COM-

MITTEE

A meeting of the Ashburton Advisory Committee to the Efficiency Board was held yesterday afternoon. The..members presenrt were:—Messrs C. J. Harper (chairman;, G. Murdoch, H. F. JN'icoll, and J. li. Simpson. A letter-was ret:eived from tho Commissioner approving _of the appoint-; ment of Mr \V. Morgan. Methveii, to tlie local committee. ;

, The Gom'missioner wrote asking /for a report from the committee as to whether :the:'requisite number of men for mustering in the high country had bcem secured, knd -also vwhether sheepfarmers, were working together to en-. sure that'-^mustering and shearing would be properly eanied out.—As a special committee had been appointed to * deal with the question of nrusteiiijg in the high totintij, no artion was taken.

A letter was al.so teoeived Jrom the Commissioner in regaid to #>fhool-bo.y labour for harvest. The writer stated that a number of boy^ attending ,secondary schools-were prepaiod to go into'the country to.undortiike haivesting and ■ other-clashes ot iaim work. The services' of the "boys would 'be available between >■ December 5 and Fobruary 18. Applications- lor assistance should be*sent in by November 1, in order to allow boys wl«o would not be required, to make airangwnonts for tlieir holidays.—The secietaiy vaji*s instructed to write to ihe ie< tor of the Ashburton High Krhool in oidei to find out how man}' boys would bu willing to work in the country.

I Several Senior Cadets employed on I faims wrote applying mr exemption from daylight parades.—ll was pointed out that daylight pmades lutd been abolished in ~\hv' connlrv districts, and further applications fot exemption would be unnecew.ru v, The committee also dealt iEli a number of private in(|iiiiies on behiili of the Commissioner.